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Special Experiment is a band around composer Dzidek Marcinkiewics, who plays keyboards and synths on this album, and is responsible for production and composition as well. As far as the compositions go, these are not bad, reminding of the archetypical prog compositions of the early nineties (especially those from the Clive Nolan school. In fact Dzidek looks a bit like Nolan). But they are nothing particularly special either, just nice prog rock tunes, now and then also reminding of Mike Oldfield (especially some of the quieter parts in for instance Centre Opti Fuga). But what is particularly strange is the fact that all the tunes seem to be structured as songs, but there are no vocals at all on the album! It was quite fun to notice that without problems I could sing along a melody line to the tracks, so predictable was the structure. For this reason alone, having no vocals, I give it a low rate. Should it have contained well -sung vocals, I would have rated it one or maybe even two points higher. But as stated, it is neither special nor an experiment (unless one wants to call leaving out vocal lines an experiment).
Conclusion: 5 out of 10
Remco Schoenmakers
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